Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić Says Teams Play Harder Against the Lakers. Plus LeBron Nears 50,000 Points

Starting point is 00:00:00 Hey, everyone. Welcome to Lockdown Lakers for Tuesday, Brian Komenetsky, Andy Kemeneski. Luca Donchich gets a taste of Lakers exceptionalism. And LeBron James is one point away from 50,000 for his career. We'll talk about it next. You are Locked on Lakers. Your daily Los Angeles Lakers podcast, part of the Lockedon Podcast Network, your team every day. Thanks to everybody for making Lockdown Lakers first listen to every day.

Starting point is 00:00:33 Monday through Friday, no matter how we get your podcast. This one's always free, never behind paywall. of course in Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where over 33,000 subscribers, Andy, are excited that Luca Donch is officially one of us. He understands and believes in Lakers exceptionalism. Luca was asked, I guess, just are you starting to understand more of what it means just to be a Laker

Starting point is 00:00:58 or just, you know, like the Lakers culture is seeping in? Something like that. And he said, quote, I think so. I think I didn't believe it before. But they say, like, if somebody's out for a long time, they play against the Lakers. I didn't believe it for a long time, but obviously it's the Lakers. So again, he is, and this is something you and I have said 100% is true. Guys do heal up to play the Lakers. Like it is a predictable joke that star players, generally speaking, unless they are

Starting point is 00:01:30 dealing with a serious long-term injury, if they've been anywhere from questionable to day to day, they will find a way to play against the Lakers. Guys love to play on nationally televised games. The Lakers are on national TV, even when they're bad, much less now, more than most teams. Guys around the league gear up to play the Lakers. Like that is not BS.

Starting point is 00:01:57 It's accurate. I have long thought. The Lakers as a form of community service should just tour hospitals and put individual patients on their schedule. and that will heal them because that's how it works. It's funny, like you talk about Lakers exceptionalism, and there's like two ways of looking at it.

Starting point is 00:02:16 This is one of those things that really is true. Like teams do get up to play the Lakers, bad teams because they want to say they beat them or because they got a chance to play LeBron or Kobe or back in the day. It's just when we were doing the post games in the lean years, as we like to call them, even when the team was bad, you still got, you know, teams would want to come onto the floor

Starting point is 00:02:44 and beat up on the Lakers. And so that part's true. I think where the exceptionalism thing got the Lakers in trouble is this notion that Lakerness is somehow special that like, you know, you can, you can kill. Players will. By virtue of being a Laker, by virtue of this franchise being the Lakers, everything's going to work out in the end. Players will always bend over backwards.

Starting point is 00:03:20 Backwards to try to play for you. Exactly. Players around the league should beg you to be a part of this organization because it's a privilege just to get a meeting, much less to get the roster. And where where the exceptionalism thing is, And so like that became in some ways sort of the crutch that the franchise would lean on, forgetting what created that was a tremendous, you know, commitment to winning,

Starting point is 00:03:48 which I'm not totally sure. I don't think they were ever intentionally trying not to. But what happened is like the how got lost. Why they were so good in the 70s and 80s was a commitment to talent, to finding the best people, allowing them to do their jobs, you know, getting, recognizing who the right stars were for your team. A little bit of luck. All teams have that. You know, the right coin flip that gets you Magic Johnson. These things have to have happen for any team to have what the, you know, what the Lakers did. But over time, it got confused. What's, I think, fascinating now is I don't want to say the Lakers are

Starting point is 00:04:35 fully past thinking of themselves as different. But I do think, because look, even Luca, who was like, had no intention of being traded here, he wasn't trying to force himself to the Lakers. When he got here, he still was like, it's the Lakers. Like, there is, my point is in that there's not something special about the organization in the same way, it's the Yankees, it's the Dodgers, it's a, apologies to everybody listening, the Celtics. Like they have, there are certain teams that have that cachet.

Starting point is 00:05:10 What I do think is different now is that the Lakers have learned the lesson to at least some degree or are learning it, that in a new CBA, in a new kind of world, you can't lean on it. Like you can't, you can't use that as a substitute for doing the right things. Now, I think they are now figuring out how to do the right, you know, do you have a top shelf training facility? Do you have a great basketball operation? Do you have the best training people? All that kind of stuff. Sometimes the answer those questions is no.

Starting point is 00:05:53 But I think they're starting to learn that they have to answer those questions differently and that it's important to have a good answer for those questions as opposed to. to whatever, we're the Lakers. I hope they've learned that lesson. I mean, to be honest, I don't know. The success they're having right now to me doesn't totally reinforce the idea that they've learned that lesson because while there have been some good moves by Rob Polinka of late, whether you're talking about hiring JJ Reddick, the Dorian Finney Smith trade, Dalton

Starting point is 00:06:25 Connect fell into their lap in the sense that he fell further than all the draft prognostic I think most teams are on the league expected, but they did the right thing. They didn't overthink it. They didn't make a type of mistake that they made with Jalen Hood Jafino. Even a guy like Jordan Goodwin, street free agent that they put on a two-way deal, like that has worked out extremely well. One of the big drivers, though, is Luca Donchich. And I'm not going to say he was gifted to them because that's too strong. But it's not like Rob had to do massive amounts of legwork, arm twisting, and, you know, hypnosis to try to, he didn't have to trick Nico Harrison into this or incept the idea. Nico came to him. I want to make sure I'm

Starting point is 00:07:18 being fair. This goes on Rob Polinka's ledger as a big time win. I am not trying to take away from Rob Polinka. That would be petty and unfair. I'm just saying to me that, doesn't reinforce that they've learned all the lessons. It's entirely possible that they could learn the wrong lesson that everything works out because we're the Lakers. I don't know if I'm it's TBD. I think that's fair. I was starting to try to thread a needle here between where I think they were, which was this rut of really truly believing the laundry imparted, imparted kind of magical powers. and would, you know, in a new world of endorsements of how guys make their money, of TV, of exposure and all that stuff, the need to play for the Lakers and the idea that playing for the Lakers gives you something that nobody else can.

Starting point is 00:08:24 At the expense of competence, because in the 80s and, you know, in the three-pit area, you got to do those things and play for an organization. run by Jerry West. You know, I mean, it's like you got the cachet and the competence at the same time. You had the best owner in sports, like, you know, a guy who just had a magic touch with this stuff and really understood in Dr. Bus how to make it work. And what I am hoping is, I think maybe is a better way to put it. It's certainly not a settled question, is that at least to some degree, they're getting the idea that you have to, you have to do the work.

Starting point is 00:09:02 And you have to, you know, and what the work looks like is different than it used to be. I still don't think they've gotten the hang of all of it. And I still think they're going to have to spend some money in places they haven't and build out things that they haven't done. But I do think at least they understand that it's not going to happen specifically because they're the Lakers. And then in the meantime, though, when we come back, there is a piece of this that directly involves Luca and these realizations that he's now having. as a member of the Lakers that I think is really great for, at the very least, the remainder of this season. I'll explain why coming up next.

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Starting point is 00:10:41 orders from participating merchants. You must have an active dash pass account terms apply. Visit DoorDash to learn more. We don't Andy intend to rub things in with other franchises who might be experiencing a certain level of misery. But at the very least, you know, kind of related that Lakers exceptionalism conversation that we were having here. The Lakers have managed to learn how not to do certain things like announce an 8% season ticket hike, which was what the Mavericks did on Monday.

Starting point is 00:11:21 They announced that season ticket prices were going to go up by 8% after they have traded Luca Donchich and quietly traded Quentin Grimes for a guy. I and there was which Martin is a Caleb that hasn't played at all for them. Meanwhile. One of them. Old Grimy put up 40 for the Sixers the other day.

Starting point is 00:11:46 But if, I mean, we've seen, we have a lot of Mavericks fans who've come over because they're also Luca fans. Thank you very much for being here. Obviously keep going also to Locked on Mavs as well. Nick and company have done a great job over the years. You don't want to just abandon them. If you need some reassurance, yes, season tickets are going to go up on a average of 8.6% next season, but the increase is due to ongoing investments in the team and fan engagement.

Starting point is 00:12:17 Like their efforts to get you to yell at them. Like that's engagement. That's all engagement, Andy, and that costs money. So, I mean, they have become, the Dallas Mavericks over the last month, like remove the decision to trade Luca. Like we've talked about before, there is a possibility that at the very least, the trade could work out well for Dallas, whether it worked out as well as if they had kept Luca.

Starting point is 00:12:49 Like if Anthony Davis is healthy, he is an elite big man in the league. Max Christie, I think is trending towards becoming one of the better three and D players in the league. He's going to have an absolute bargain of a contract. He's only 22 years old. The Mavericks have managed to hang around in a competitive West despite missing half their team and all of their front court players. Things are not totally disastrous at the moment.

Starting point is 00:13:19 The Mavericks have become insanely bad at messaging, PR, and the whole words thing. It kind of was the space the Lakers were in for a little bit, where they were really bad at the talking. Um, say less. Like, say less. Yeah, again, we're not here to pile on. We're not not here to pile on with when it's funny. We like to pile on.

Starting point is 00:13:50 I mean, look, man, fan bases of the other 29 leagues, teams around the league, love to pile on the Lakers when things aren't going well. So, you know, you got to be able to take it if you dish it out. Yep. Anyway, um, more on this. exceptionalism stuff, Andy, that you said, relates directly to Luca. The realization on Luca's part that no, really, teams around the league really do gear up to face the Lakers. And this, by the way, is coming from a guy who was playing for a team that had reached the finals,

Starting point is 00:14:27 like it's not like teams around the league wouldn't be fairly focused to take on the Mavericks. I mean, you're talking about a team with Kyrie and Luca in the back court. Like, that's a pretty good starting place to begin with. Again, went to the finals last year, that Luca is recognizing that gets ratcheted up even more in a more tangible real way with the Lakers. We already talked about how Luca has seemed very dialed in since joining this team. You know, I had to work through some struggles, but the commitment, defensive. has really been there.

Starting point is 00:15:04 Like, Luca's defense has fit in very well with a team that's completely he's trying. I think, you know, and that's, and he's been effective at times. He has.

Starting point is 00:15:14 And, and, he's got to, you know, I think the group around him is well tailored to picking up in, you know, places where he is more deficient. And I think they're,

Starting point is 00:15:25 they're kind of using his strong suits defensively in terms of anticipation, stepping into passing lanes, stuff like that. I think they're using that well. But the baseline is he's trying. I think you can tell he's with the rest of the group, putting out the effort. And a lot of times that's what you need from star players who are not great on that end. There's been a high level of engagement from Luca on all facets anyway.

Starting point is 00:15:53 And you would expect him to be pretty, pretty laser focused as it is, given all the dirty laundry that Dallas has been messaging about him on the way out, you know, all the conditioning issues, the lack of dedication, all of that doesn't fit into our culture. So you would think that engagement level would be high anyway. But it's always nice if you can find one other thing on top of it all that would make Luca feel even 5% more dialed in. The idea that no, really, it's true. This team does. get everyone's best shot, that can only help Luca at least for this season before he really truly becomes used to it. And it's just like another part of being a Laker.

Starting point is 00:16:44 Well, I think it's more than that too. I think, you know, when you're a hyper-competitive guy and the one thing, you know, Lakers fans, I think to some degree you're counting on, you know, the petty level in terms of competitiveness. Like it's like I say petty in a good way. Anything that ratchets up the intensity of a game, the meaningfulness of a game, the guys on the TV broadcasts judging you more often, telling you, this, that, whatever, the things that stars hear, whether they hear it directly or they hear it through their people or whatever, they hear everything. All of that stuff, if it fuels Luca a little bit more, you know, more high-profile games on TV, more time. Under the microscope, you know, star player in Dallas is a different deal than a star player in L.A. I mean, I'm not saying that, you know, it just is. Like the world cares more about and judges you more positively and negatively.

Starting point is 00:17:51 You lead the Dallas Mavericks to two finals appearances. Okay. That's, you're going to not pay for a lot of beers in Dallas anymore. You lead the Lakers to a finals appearance, two finals appearance. you don't win. You know, it's just, it's just, you're just judged differently. The opportunity for glory is different and it's higher, but you get bleeped on more in when things don't work out.

Starting point is 00:18:15 And I think for a guy like Luca, who seems at least by everything I've read and certainly everything he seems to say, to feed on that level of competitiveness, I, Kobe had said before, you know, like being a Lakers not for everybody. and I think to some degree that is it's both cliche and sort of self-serving. Like, you know, it can be overstated. But there is. When Jeannie Bus, for example, said anybody who didn't want to play for the Lakers and play with Kobe is a loser. For example.

Starting point is 00:18:47 That was an example of Lakers exceptionalism gone awry. And also we talked before about Dallas suffering foot and mouth syndrome. Bad messaging. Like it can be overstated. Like, you know, winning's not for everybody. You know, playing for the Lakers, not for everybody. But that said, there is a scrutiny that comes with being a star for the Lakers that is different than being a star for the Mavericks. And, you know, being Luca presumably, if everything goes well, inherits the line of magic, you know, with worthy thrown in there.

Starting point is 00:19:27 and then, you know, Kobe and to a huge degree, Shaq to some agree, you know, pow in there. And then obviously the LeBron era with a, I guess maybe shorter than expected, slightly AD era, whatever it is. Lucas now the next era to be judged in Lakers history. That is a different, it's just different than how you get judged as the guy who was the center of the Mavericks.

Starting point is 00:19:54 If Dirk in all of those years only won one title in L.A., I mean, I don't know what that looks like necessarily from a perception standpoint in terms of how people look at Dirk. I think you do. I think they look less on him. Well, no, I think it's roughly. I think it is roughly similar. It's not contextually exactly the same, but I think it's roughly similar to the way people talk about up till now. LeBron era, which has one championship. I think people appreciate the championship, but all in all, I think most fans have found it to be underwhelming compared to expectations.

Starting point is 00:20:39 Right. And the joke is twice as long as LeBron era. That's fine, but I'm just saying in terms of one title, I think if you had told most fans, especially once it was LeBron and AD, that they would have one championship, and that's the only finals appearance. to show for it, they would say kind of overwhelming, which we often hear from Liker fans. If Kobe had played, if Kobe played for 20 years and won one title,

Starting point is 00:21:07 I think his perception would be different. Of course it would. And it's so it just, it is different. And I think Luca is going to, I think he understands that. And I think he is, again, I hate the cliche

Starting point is 00:21:22 parts of it. Like, you know, be like the psychoanalization and the implication that some people just aren't like, you know, tough enough and macho enough to be a Laker. But like I think Luca is actually built properly for this challenge. LeBron in the meantime is definitely built to be a Laker and he's one point away from 50K total points on his career. Pretty amazing achievement. He's got some playoff and regular season combined.

Starting point is 00:21:50 Right. Playoff and regular season combined. He's also got some interesting other milestones approaching. see how close he is to those. That's coming up next. Locked on Lakers is brought to you by Open Phone. If you're running a small business, it means you're wearing a lot of hats. Your personal phone becomes your business phone before you know it. You're juggling customer calls all day and night.

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Starting point is 00:23:33 go to Lockdown Daily, click on Lockdown Lakers and the show and lots of great analysis from around the NBA channel is delivered to you every single day. So that's a place you can subscribe in addition to subscribing here on the YouTube channel. And of course, through the audio version so you can get the podcast itself that follows you everywhere you go, subscribe on iTunes or Spotify or wherever. The numbers sometimes, Andy, with LeBron, are so large that they cease to make sense. 50,000 combined points in regular season and playoffs is one of those figures that to me that is very challenging to wrap my head around.

Starting point is 00:24:13 Yeah, he's one point away from 50K. Like you mentioned, it seems like, and to some degree it's actually true, every time LeBron steps on the court by definition, he is making some type of history. Round numbers, though, can sometimes provide just clearer perspective because we are a round numbers society and world. 50,000 for the entirety of his career, regular season and playoffs, that is staggering. That is absolutely staggering, especially when you take into account that LeBron is not wired to be a score first guy at all. and I get it, 22 seasons in the league, the majority of them, or at least three quarters of them in the playoffs, that's a lot of opportunity to rack points.

Starting point is 00:25:07 That is still a lot of time for achievement. You can't penalize him for that. I'm not. I'm not. I don't mean you. I mean people. Like, you can't penal. Well, it's just because he's got all that opportunity.

Starting point is 00:25:19 Well, the reason he has all those playoff games is because he's LeBron James. Well, and he's also, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, he's, not just hanging around loitering. That's my point. Yeah, I mean, he's not the dude outside like the 7-Eleven, just, you know, sort of killing time. Like, he has been a major part of every single one of these teams, which is required to get yourself to 50K, even if you play 22 seasons. Like Vince Carter played 22 seasons, had a Hall of Fame career. Like, Vince Carter was an incredible player. He's not in this stratosphere. And Vince Carter is one of the best to ever do it and played as long as

Starting point is 00:26:02 LeBron. Like it just, you're talking about like the 1% of the 1% of the 1%. It's truly amazing. I like to think of it this way. Like, because I was looking up numbers like this too, because that not considered a score type thing. Like Kevin Durant is considered a pure score. Like, you know, he's he's exceedingly talented in other ways and he's a great rebounder. and he's an excellent passer, and he's been another one of these guys that, like, over the course of his career when he needs to be,

Starting point is 00:26:31 has, you know, been able to play good defense and all these other things. But he's considered a pure score. LeBron, for his career, averages two-tenths of a point less than Kevin Durant on a per-game basis. I mean,

Starting point is 00:26:49 that kind of thing puts it in perspective. Like, you don't think of it, that way, but he averages 27 points a game for 22 seasons. It's just truly amazing stuff. I also, it got me looking at some of LeBron's placements on different all-time lists in the NBA, assists. He's currently fourth all-time at 11,481. He's never going to catch John Stockton, who's number one at 15-806, as much as I love,

Starting point is 00:27:23 seeing Stockton or Malone get passed for anything. But he's 610 behind Jason Kidd for third. LeBron averages around seven and a half per game for his career, about eight as a Laker. He'll need about 79 games to pass Jason Kidd. And about 114 to pass Chris Paul for second. Like the latter is really dependent on how much longer he plans to play. Like he has 105 games left under Connoisse.

Starting point is 00:27:53 contract, at least theoretically. So he might have to play 26, 27, or, you know, basically not miss a game for the rest of the time he's under contract. But third feels very doable. Second possible for LeBron ending up third or second on the all-time assist list. Steels, he's currently sixth at 2326, about a hundred nine, a hundred and nineteen behind Gary Peyton to crack the top five. Interestingly, the steals list stocked in one.

Starting point is 00:28:23 Chris Paul to Jason Kid 3. So it's exactly like the top three of the assists. He's averaging a little more than a steal a game, LeBron. So he'll need about 108-ish games to pass Gary Payton. Again, could require a 2027 season or some serious thievery, but it's within screaming distance. Three's made 2535, 2,535. He's only five behind Reggie Miller for,

Starting point is 00:28:53 for top five. And it's, he's probably going to pass him sometime this week. And we talked about the longevity, sure. But like, if you had said at the beginning of LeBron's career that he'd be in the top 75 for three's made, much less five behind Reggie Miller for like top five. I don't think it'll get any higher than that. Clay's got a hundred-ish triples lead at four. But like that just speaks to how much work LeBron put into his outside shot.

Starting point is 00:29:29 Like pure volume and pure longevity does not get him this higher without the work. Similar to kid. It's interesting. Like kids come up. I don't think kids, where is kid on the three point list that I don't. I don't have it in front of me. I don't think he's that high. But like he's another one of these guys that was a, give me a good.

Starting point is 00:29:50 I'm not even sure I would call LeBron a god awful three point. shooter early in his career, but like kid was a terrible, terrible three point shooter. By the end of his career was really good. And like this is what I think is, and we'll see it, you know, over time, hopefully with Luca as well. But like it was one of the most interesting things about watching Kobe. It's been one of the most interesting things about watching LeBron are the ways in which they compensate for a decline in athleticism, what they do.

Starting point is 00:30:21 Like with Kobe, like the outside, the three point shot never really came around for Kobe as like a LeBron-esque weapon. He'd get on heaters at times, but it was never a consistent part of his game. LeBron, Kobe didn't have seasons where he shot near 40%, you know, at 40% or stuff like that. You know, LeBron has returned himself to a pretty reliable three point shooter. But Kobe obviously had the footwork and, you know, the old man game and those little things. you know, the tricks and stuff that he would do to, you know, at least pre-Achilles, continue to score at an incredibly high level, even as the athleticism declined a little bit. And, you know, you just, you see that with LeBron, the timing, the way he changes this, that,

Starting point is 00:31:10 and whatever. I find this portion of a player's career, we talked about it a ton. I found late stage Kobe way more interesting in a lot of ways. in most ways, really for me, than early stage. Maybe it's because I covered it more closely because I was following the team more closely or whatever. I just, this sort of sustained excellence at this age is unprecedented.

Starting point is 00:31:38 It does not happen in anything other than, I guess, like NFL quarterbacks or Ichero. That's basically, like those are your choices. I, how they do it is, something that should be studied and appreciated and nobody should ever just sort of scoff at 50,000 combined points because while the guy's been at it for a while. A couple more of these. He is currently 25th on the all-time rebounding list at 11,627.

Starting point is 00:32:12 The only players that I saw, at least it jumped out of me, I'm pretty sure about this, that were shorter than him ahead of him were Paul Silas at 21, Charles Barkley at There are a couple of guys listed at 6-8, but the ones that jumped out of me that were shorter were those two. LeBron should pass Kevin Willis and Dennis Rodman sometime next year reasonably easily. He's got a shot next season to pass in Charles Oakley at 22. Free throws, if you combine NBA and ABA, he's behind Moses Malone at 3. If you don't combine him, he's ahead of Moses Malone at 2. Either way, he will pass Moses Malone most likely next season, regardless of which list you use.

Starting point is 00:32:55 And here's one that I found staggering to look into. So 15,360 field goals, he is 477 behind Kareem for all time. I didn't used to think that LeBron would carry the volume to get there just because of his age and the concessions that come with being 40. now it's pretty clear barring injury. I think he's going to pass Kareem sometime next season if he maintains his normal pace. But here's, this one was amazing. There is not a chance in hell that LeBron will pass Kareem for specifically two-point field goals made.

Starting point is 00:33:36 LeBron is third with 12,825. He could possibly pass Carl Malone at some point at 13,433. Tough work, but maybe could do it. Kareem at number one, though, 15,836. Do not bother trying to pass this if you're LeBron. Frankly, don't bother trying to pass this if you're anybody. It's not going to happen. And it's just another reminder that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar remains the most

Starting point is 00:34:08 criminally underrated basketball player in NBA history despite the fact that he is an icon. I just don't think people understand how, especially, He's the most successful basketball player of all time. But even if you're just taking the NBA, a couple housekeeping notes before we go. Do not expect Rui Hachimura or Austin Reeves to play tonight. But Austin's questionable. I'm seeing him as questionable.

Starting point is 00:34:35 I've seen, but I was going to say the MRI came back clean on, on Reeves and his calf. My understanding was that he wasn't going to probably, was unlikely to play, but the Lakers are hopeful that it is not a long absence. But hey, if I'm wrong, just me to play out. I'm just going by the injury designation, as opposed to like Rui and Jordan Goodwin, who are out, out. But the Lakers got good news that the MRI on Reeves was clean,

Starting point is 00:35:04 and they, of course, will be exceedingly careful with him because they're up in the second spot in the Western Conference. They have that luxury. Locked on Lakers on YouTube is where you can go hang out over 33,000 subscribers to the channel. Of course, we'll be back after the game. See everyone later.

Locked On Lakers - Daily Podcast On The Los Angeles Lakers - Luka Dončić Says Teams Play Harder Against the Lakers. Plus LeBron Nears 50,000 Points

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